We all have our favorite browsers. For me, it's Firefox. I know loads of people that have wet dreams about it. I heard Opera and Safari are pretty good too, but I've never tried them for too long on my own, only for debugging purposes. Never have I heard anyone say that their favorite was Internet Explorer, yet somehow this cursed browser is able to stay as the most widely used one in the world. As if that's not bad enough, it's not even the latest version of the browser that's the most popular, it's the outdated and older Internet Explorer 6 that is at the top!

If you're a website designer or developer, you know how frustrating it can be to work with bugs that appear only in Internet Explorer 6. You've probably contemplated just letting them be and not fixing them. You figure that might teach those ingrates that still use that browser a lesson. But then you take some time to cool off, and after realizing it's still the most popular browser in the world, you have no choice. You have to fix it. Here I've compiled a list of 4 useful tools to help you out in your debugging process.

IETester

IETester is probably the most popular and widely known programs out there to debug code in IE 5.5, 6, and 7. It's very lightweight and works like a charm. Probably why I use it myself.
Get it here.

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is provided by Microsoft to aid in the debugging of problems in their awesome browser. It is compatible with both Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
Get it here.

Companion.JS

Companion.JS is a great javascript debugger. Think of it as the Firebug for Internet Explorer.
Get it here.

DebugBar

DebugBar is a great Internet Explorer plugin that comes with the a built-in HTTP, DOM, Javascript inspector and HTML validator.
Get it here.

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